| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| chanoma 茶の間 | Lit. tearoom. A Edo period communal living room usually containing a hearth *irori… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| chigi 千木 | Also written 鎮木, 知木, 知疑. Also higi 氷木. 1 Forked finials, which are found on most Shinto… |
Architecture, Shrines, Folk Dwellings | |
| chōdai 帳台 | 1 A curtained sleeping platform used by those of highest rank in shinden style *… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings | |
| chōdaigamae 帳台構え | 1 A built-in ornamental doorway found in the raised area *jōdan… |
Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings | |
| chōna-zukuri 釿造り | A method of construction that employed long substantial beams called *chōnabari… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| chōnabari 釿梁 | ✓ | Transverse roof beams that span the distance from the center posts of a vernacular house with a thatched roof to the *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| chūmon-zukuri 中門造り | A type of vernacular house *minka 民家, characterized by one or more wings or… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| chūnikai 中二階 | ✓ | A term for a loft or attic occupying the roof space of a vernacular house *minka… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
| takahei 高塀 | Also pronounced takahe. The gable walls of the central thatched portion kirizuma 切妻 of the roof *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| takahei-zukuri 高塀造り | Also pronounced takahe-zukuri. Lit. "high wall construction." Also called *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| takiguchi 焚口 | The stokehole or stokeholes in the side of a cooking range *kamado 竃. The… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tana 棚 | Shelves. 1 A type of shelf, sometimes with a rack, of which there are many ordinary household… |
Architecture, General Terms, Aristocratic Dwellings, Tea Houses, Folk Dwellings | |
| tarukidake 垂木竹 | Bamboo rafters that span from the ridge *munagi 棟木 to the eave ends *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tateana jūkyo 竪穴住居 | A pit dwelling. Generally a house type with a sunken, excavated floor. Houses of this type existed in Japan from the Jōmon… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tateba 立て場 | 1 Small settlements between the larger officially recognized inn towns *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| teppōdoko 鉄砲床 | A term for an alcove or recess of the *oshi-ita 押板 type found in… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tokomise 床見世 | Also written 床店. A small shop *mise 店, or stall, used for retail… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tomobeya 伴部屋 | Also written 供部屋. A room used principally by the servants or attendants tomo 伴, 供 of high ranking visitors both as… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tōriniwa 通り庭 | ✓ | Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tsuchido 土戸 | 1 In the Heian and Kamakura periods, a gate in a pise mud wall *tsuiji… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Storehouses | |
| tsuji 辻 | 1 A crossroads or intersection of two roads. See *zushi… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tsukabumi 束踏 | 1 An alternative term for the base ridge *jimune 地棟. The base… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tsunagibari 繋梁 | Lit. "connecting beam." 1 Also *geyabari 下屋梁. A short… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tsuribeya 吊り部屋 | A small upper floor or mezzanine loft space *chūnikai 中二階, usually only about… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings | |
| tsushi nikai 厨子二階 | ✓ | Also read zushi nikai. A loft in the roof space of a single-story vernacular house *… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings |
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